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UNTTED STATES PATENT QTFFTTGF.

FRIEDRICH 0, VONTOBEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PACKAGE-HANDLE.

i Specicaton of Letters Patent. Emigranten@ NQW, 2'?, 191i?.

Application filed February 26, 1917. Serial No. 150,979.

To all whom t may Concern.'

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH; O. VON- aonnn, a citizen of Switzerland, residino' at New York, in the county and State of ew York, have'invented certain new and useful improvements in Package-Handles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to package carriers, and has for its object to provide a handle having improved means for attaching a cord thereto for securing the package without the necessity of tying knots in the cord and whereby the package may be unfastened without cutting the cord. Another object is to provide a package handle having cord holding means at each end, whereby it is not necessary to use a continuous cord over the top of the package, the handle serving instead of the cord over the portion of the package spanned thereby. Other objects will appear as the description proceeds.

The invention will `be irst hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of this specication, and then Vmore specically defined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package with my improved carrier attached, and

Figs. 2 and 3 are detailed perspective views of the cord holding ends of a handle.

The package 1 is designed to be securely fastened together and to the handle 2 by means of the cord 11 which may be secured to the cord holding devices at the opposite ends or" said handle without tying any knots in the cord, and uniastened without cutting the cord. The handle proper preferably carries a tubular grip 3 which may be made of wood or other suitable material. Said handle 2, which is preferably made of stout wire, has angularly bent portions 4 and 5 at its opposite ends for the purpose of spacing the grip 3 away from the package. The cord holding means hereinbefore mentioned are arranged at the ends of said portions 4 and 5 and are preferably formed integral therewith, the handle and cord holding devices being made in a single piece.

The cord holding device carried by the portion 5 or the handle comprises a iiat loop 6 arranged in the plane of the handle. rThe end portion 7 03E the wire is arranged close to the other portion oi the loop 6, while Vthe bend in the wire at the base of the loop is broadened out sufficiently to permit the cord 11 to pass ireelythrough it, as at 13. The cord may be forced into said broadened end portion of the loop 6 between the end 7 of the wire and the op oosite portion or' said loop, but said corc will not pass through this restricted portion of the loop without being forced.

rThe cord holding device carried by the other end portion 4 of the handle comprises a laterally extending loop having a hori- Zontal portion 10 and a vertical portion 9 arranged substantially parallel to the end portion 4 of the handle. The upwardly turned end portion 9 is broadened out so as to prevent the cord which is wrapped around the portion 10 from slipping off the end of the loop. Said portion 10 is narrower than the portion 9, the extremity 100 of the wire 10 being spaced only 'slightly away from the opposite portion 8 of the loop, this space being less than the diameter of the cord, so that said cord may be firmly held therein.

As Vclearly illustrated in Fig. 1, only a single piece of cord 11 is required for securely fastening the package 1 and attaching the same to the handle. One end of said cord is knotted, as at 12, and is held in the broadened end portion 13 of the loop 6. The cord is then passed around the package, through the end of the loop 6, then around the package lengthwise and around the base of the end portion 4 of the handle, as at 14, thence around the package transversely and wrapped or coiled two or three times around the restricted portion 10 below the broadened loop 9, the extremity of the cord being finally passed between the portions 8 and 100 and securelyheld'thereby.- To uni'asten the package, it is only necessary to release the end portion 16 of the cord from the members 8 and 100, after which said cord may be quickly removed from the package. lf desired, the transverse coils oithe cord about the package may be twisted around the base portion of the longitudinal coil, as indicated at 17 in Fig. 1, thereby making the transverse coils as well as the longitudinal coil more secure.

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Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. A package handle having at one end a cord holding device comprising a flat loop arranged in the longitudinal plane of the handle and having a restricted portion for retaining the cord in the loop, and another cord holding device arranged at the other end of the handle and comprising a laterally extending loop having a broad upwardly bent end portion and a narrow Hat portion for clamping the end orf the cord after it has been wound about a package.

2. A package handle comprising a tubular grip member anda piece of sti' wire passed through said grip member and having its end portion bent in the same directionY at .the oppositeends thereof, one end l portion of the wire being formed into a cord-holding loop having a restricted portion for retaining the cord therein and the other end portion of the wirebeing'i'ormed into a loophaving an upwardly bent broad end portion and a narrow cord gripping portion `for the purpose speciiied. v v

In testimonywhereof I have signed my name to `this specication.

FRIEDRICH O, VVONIOBEL.v

Copies of this patent may be obtained for n ve centsveach, by` addressing the Commissioner ofrlatents,

Washington, kID. C'. 

